483 



In the publications of Mr. Saintliill, the Quarterly Review," and 

 this paper, there is now before the Academy a complete genealogical 

 and life account of the two Old Countesses of Desmond ; and from it a 

 satisfactory conclusion may be arrived at as to whether both, or which 

 of them, appeared at the courts of Queen Elizabeth and King James. 



It appears to me that, without a violation of the just application of 

 the laws of evidence, the. decision must be against any such visit of the 

 older Countess, who had no apparent necessity for the journeys, and at 

 the first suggested visit was 120, and at the latter 140 years of age ; 

 while the other Countess had the inducement of hard necessity, and was 

 then in the vigour of her age, being 30 years old in 1576, and 48 in 

 1604. 



Lord Talbot, on the part of the Earl of Enniskillen, presented some 

 drawings, maps, and photographs of antiquarian remains. 

 The thanks of the Academy were returned to the donor. 

 The Academy then adjourned. 



STATED MEETING.— Monday, March 16, 1864. 

 The Yery Eev. Chaeles Geaves, D.D., President, in the Chair. 



The Seceetaey of the Council read the following — 

 Eepoet of the CoTTisrciL. 



Since our last Report was presented to the Academy, the following 

 papers have been printed in the " Transactions :" — 



Iis" THE Depaetment OF SciENCE. — Mr. Eiudon B. Stoney, ^' On the 

 Relative Deflection of Lattice and Plate Girders." 



And in Antiquities. — Mr. W. H. Hardinge, " On MS. Mapped and 

 other Townland Survej^'s in Ireland of a Public Character, from 1640 

 to 1688." 



The printing of Captain Meadows Taylor's paper, ''On the Cromlechs 

 and other Antiquarian Remains in the Dekhan," has been completed, 

 but its issue is retarded by a delay in the execution of the illustrations. 



It has recently been decided, on the recommendation of the Com- 

 mittee of Publication, that every paper printed in our '' Transactions" 

 shall be made np separately, and issued in that form to members applying 

 for it. This arrangement will greatly diminish the interval which has 

 hitherto usually elapsed between the reading of a communication and 

 the delivery to our Members of the part of the Transactions" in 

 which it appears. Eor the future, when a paper is ready for issue, no- 

 tice will be sent to each Member of the Academj^ ; and after the lapse of 

 twelve months from the date of the notice, the Academy will not con- 

 sider itself bound to supply copies of the paper. 



The preceding regulation has enabled us to prepare for immediate 

 issue several papers which has^e been long printed, and had remained in 



